4/9/12

Mini Skirt Monday #110: Interracial Couples

I certainly don't pretend to know the back story on all these photographs, so I won't claim these are all actual romantically involved couples. I can tell you that most of these images are from the early seventies, and a mere ten years earlier, pictures like these would have been scandalous - romantic or not.

I'll spare you a long discussion on interracial dating. I've already touched on it before, and it's a really sensitive subject for some - In fact, I'm sure I'll get complaints on the title of this post. I couldn't come up with anything better.

I remember seeing an article in LIFE when I was a kid about Jim Seals (of Seals & Crofts) and his black wife. It was shocking to me then - not in a bad way, just a "new" way. I'd never seen any 'mixed" couples at that point in my life - I'd lived in Massachusetts, Spain and Ohio by that point. But I have a feeling, no matter where I'd lived, that LIFE article would have been no less jarring.

So, let's check out some miniskirted babes and their partners of a different race. I also think it wouldn't be wildly inappropriate to raise a glass in honor of John Seals and his Diamond Girl. Cheers!

Great pictures. Some look like they could have come from a high school yearbook. When I was in high school in the late 70s in the deep South there was an unwritten rule that when the most handsome/most beautiful were chosen for the yearbook, one should be black and one white. So that may explain some of these pairs, although in other cases there definitely seems to be a lot more going on.

Contact Me

123rerun@gmail.con

Disclaimer

I mean no copyright infringement by the posting of pictures, videos, etc. on this blog. I do not in any way claim the rights of ownership to any of them. They totally remain the property of their respective owners. I have posted them purely for entertainment purposes only. All written content, unless otherwise noted as being quotes, has been written and copyrighted by me.